Pop star Katy Perry is bound for the New Orleans Arena on Thursday, September 8. Janelle Monae and DJ Skeet Skeet open. Tickets go on sale on April 23 at 10 through Ticketmaster. Tickets will be available at the arena box office starting on April 25.

Katy Perry brings her 'California Dreams' tour to New Orleans in September.

With comedic actor Russell Brand, Perry forms one of entertainment’s more colorful power couples. She endured multiple false starts and scrapped recordings in her early years as a professional, and has now moved well beyond her breakthrough novelty hit, “I Kissed a Girl.”

The former church singer’s most recent album, “Teenage Dream,” her second full-length studio album, has spawned four No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It is the first album in six years to do so, and only the ninth overall. Her run of chart-topping singles includes “California Gurls,” “Teenage Dream, “Firework” and “E.T.”